Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a match , compared to that with the dauphin , would have been distinctly disparaging for Mary . |
| 2 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 3 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 4 | Modugno said it would have been almost impossible for Mansell to see the flag while following closely behind the McLaren-Honda of Ayrton Senna . |
| 5 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 6 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |
| 7 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 8 | Detectives say that had Mr Hughes been the intended target it would have been much easier for loyalists to attack him at his Carryduff home in south Belfast . |
| 9 | I mean it may have been that simple for Mr. Daytimer , who was a lawyer , erm , but I do n't think it 's , it 's , it certainly is n't that simple for me , and I , not for anybody else I know . |
| 10 | Christ was not a worldly ruler , and some of the virtues which he preached , like meekness , would have been extremely dangerous for rulers to imitate . |
| 11 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |
| 12 | Walking down the aisle would have been too tame for Timothy , a carnival gaming agent from Florida , and Nony Tedjakasume , a computer analyst from Jakarta , Indonesia . |
| 13 | But as Brown Owl pinned my Promise Badge on me , and said , ‘ I trust you to keep the Promise ’ , the excitement must have been too much for Natalie ! |
| 14 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 15 | That 4th place must still have been very satisfying for Robin Williams who has now completed his transition from international slalom C2 paddler to international marathon K2 . |
| 16 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 17 | The prestige of Oswiu 's family , or else its capacity for intimidation , must have been very considerable for Aldfrith to return and rule in what seems to have been domestic peace . |
| 18 | Becoming a farmer 's wife must have been very difficult for Grandma . |
| 19 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 20 | Having a slaughterhouse for his pigs next-door may have been very convenient for Charles , but it was a luxury he was soon to lose : The Frome Turnpike Trustees had decided to drag Frome into the modern world by demolishing Rossiter 's buildings as part of a scheme to widen the road and ease the notorious bottleneck north of the bridge . |
| 21 | Would it have been more honourable for Prothero to let Pound go on submitting , when there was no hope of his being accepted ? |
| 22 | The Allies ( certainly the British ) would have been perfectly happy for de Gaulle to claim a generalized legitimacy on the grounds that he represented the true interests of France . |
| 23 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 24 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |